Magnetic disk device and head stack assembly

• US 20090147406A1
• Filed: 11/18/2008
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands BV (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Toshihiko, Watanabe, Keiko, Otake, Noritaka, Tomida, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 8,094,412 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 360/244.500
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/4813 Mounting or aligning of arm assemblies, e.g. actuator arm supported by bearings, multiple arm assemblies, arm stacks or multiple heads on single arm G11B5/484 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/4886 relative to rotating disc
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/6005 Specially adapted for spacing from a rotating disc using a fluid cushion

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate disk drives, and in particular to realizing a positioning accuracy equal to that of an actuator having the mountable maximum number of suspensions, in an actuator having the smaller number of suspensions than the mountable maximum number. An embodiment of a magnetic disk device includes an actuator having an arm to which a suspension for applying a predetermined load onto a slider with a magnetic head is attached, and an arm to which a plate is attached instead of having the suspension. The plate attached to the arm in place of the suspension has a partially small section with respect to a section perpendicular to an arm longitudinal direction (constricted part), and the constricted part is located between a plate leading end and an arm attachment part.

Claims

1. A magnetic disk device comprising:

a magnetic disk;

an actuator having a plurality of arms and swingable in a radial direction of the magnetic disk;

a suspension attached to one or some of the plurality of arms for holding a slider on which a magnetic head for recording or reproducing the magnetic information in the magnetic disk is mounted, and providing a predetermined load on the slider; and

a plate attached to one or some of the plurality of arms,

wherein the plate has a part with a partially small section in a section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the arm, and the part with the partially small section is located between a leading end of the plate and an attachment part to the arm.

2. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein the part with the partially small section of the plate is a constricted part of the plate.

3. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein the leading end of the plate is divided into a plurality of portions, and the plate has a plurality of the parts with the partially small section between the respective divided leading end portions and the attachment part to the arm.

4. The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein the part with the partially small section of the plate has a step along a perpendicular direction to a surface of the magnetic disk.

5. A head stack assembly comprising:

an actuator having a plurality of arms;

a suspension attached to one or some of the plurality of arms;

a slider attached to the suspension for mounting a magnetic head; and

a plate attached to one or some of the plurality of arms,

wherein the head stack assembly is characterized in that the plate has a part with a partially small section in a section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the arm, and the part with the partially small section is located between a leading end of the plate and an attachment part to the arm.

6. The head stack assembly according to claim 5, wherein the part with the partially small section of the plate is a constricted part of the plate.

7. The head stack assembly according to claim 5, wherein the leading end of the plate is divided into a plurality of portions, and the plate has a plurality of the parts with the partially small section between the respective divided leading end portions and the attachment part to the arm.

8. The head stack assembly according to claim 5, wherein the part with the partially small section of the plate has a step along a perpendicular direction to a surface of the plate.